Racism is not the cause of Obama’s unpopularity

Oprah Winfrey needs to stop using “the race card to explain the president’s plummeting polls,” when it’s President Obama’s inept handling of health care reform, conflict in the Middle East and the abuse of power by government agencies, says Victor Davis Hansonin the National Review.

Wait a second – the President is not black – he’s half white and half black so how is it about race? Isn’t it about the President’s inability to understand what the Affordable Healthcare Act encompassed? The downturn in his numbers isn’t about race.

I look forward to a time when we not only elect an African-American president but have reached the point where the Left and the media no longer feel the need to protect him (or her) from criticism based solely on the color of his skin. It’s one thing to elect an African-American president; it’s another to permit him to be criticized to the same extent as white presidents. When we have a white Republican president, dissent is considered patriotic. However, when we have a black Democrat President, such dissent somehow becomes racist. The irony is that the only ones explicitly treating Obama differently because of his race are those on the Left who are the first to scream “racism” when it suits their political purposes.

Republicans are all racists. They are the epitome of pure evil. They even have their own news channel, run by Roger Ailes, spewing propaganda every single day and poisoning impressionable minds. The Democrats, on the other hand, only have our best interests at heart, and don’t need to adhere to the same set of rules. That’s why I felt so much better when Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.” I slept so much better after I heard that.